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Cindy Sheehan Is Running For Governor Of California in 2014

Cindy Sheehan is best known for her work organizing the anti-war movement of the Aughts. The anti-war movement splintered after Barack Obama was elected President, but Sheehan never stopped advocating peace and progress.

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Not quite sure why I have an unfavorable memory of Sheehan…must have been something she was doing or saying back in the day (though it certainly wasn’t her opposition to the war). Looking over your list of her platform planks I like a lot of what I see, with a few exceptions:

Increased use of hemp I usually hate to say the words “free market” in public, but isn’t this a free market thing? If it’s useful and cost-effective, I’m pretty sure ole Adam Smith will take care of it.

Open borders I guess I’d have to read up on the details of her thinking here, but if “open” means ‘open’ (as in ‘send the border crossing agents and their drug/explosive dogs home and turn off the radiation detectors at border crossings’) then this is kind-of a “wait…what?” item for me.

Retirement at full pay Best job-killing idea EVER. Send in the robots!

Return of tribal lands Noble and durn hard to argue with on moral grounds, but, uh, wouldn’t that be ALL of California (and if not, why not)? How exactly would that work?

I have a few problems with Cindy Sheehan, mainly to do with the fact she went kind of nuts over time and became somewhat Alex Jones conspiracy theory ish (she in fact appeared on his show a number of times if I recall correctly). That, and she did nothing to build on her relative success when she ran against Nancy Pelosi and got around 17% of the vote (unlike Kshama Sawant who built upon her relative success running against the state house leader in Washington and won a city council seat in Seattle). I don’t expect much out of her gubernatorial run. That being said, I do agree with most of her platform, and I gotta address something Bill said

>Retirement at full pay Best job-killing idea EVER. Send in the robots!

If we’re going to operate under that mindset, then we’ll have to keep wages low enough to make automation more expensive, leading to an atmosphere of ever decreasing wages as automation becomes cheaper and cheaper (until we can’t lower the wage anymore). In other words, the same “race to the bottom” bullshit we have had with state taxation rates. Not something we shoud cosign ourselves to, though of course that does require us to create labor policies outside the policy type of simply dictating what the private employers can or can’t do (IE the old 20th century social democratic model)

I got half-way through that article…wondering when it might start talking about Elizabeth Warren, when I hit this brilliant piece of psychoanalysis regarding Barack Obama: “Throughout his life, he really believed that the reason why he was getting ahead, having great success, was because he was superior to people who weren’t. This meant that he believed that the reason the masses weren’t successful, was because they weren’t as brilliant as he was.”

Ah yes: yet another sloppy thinker and lazy writer asserting his particular pet biases as facts. Whoever wrote this drivel is such a penetrating thinker he actually believes he knows what has gone on in someone else’s head over a lifetime. Yawn.

I never did make it to the part of the article about Elizabeth Warren.

Stephen, I’m not a Californian, and I’m not supporting anyone in this race. I simply came across Cindy Sheehan’s campaign, and thought that it was worthy of note. I’ll take a second look at Rodriguez. Last time I looked his web site was kind of blank.

Bill: (I didn’t finish the article either.) All these people being held in high esteem for election are just a waste of time, since they can’t get anything done with the corporatists (holding the money and buying elections by controlling both parties) who are now the clear majority of ‘playas’ in D.C. I think elections are now moot and won’t help us ordinary citizens in the least. The government is broken beyond repair, and we don’t have the means or national will to fix it.

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